Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs

Back in February, we posted a Show HN about building a “developer-first open source Zapier alternative” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686). This was v1 of Trigger.dev.During the months since, we’ve gathered a lot of feedback from early users and realized that what developers actually wanted was more like an easier-to-use Temporal with integrations.Here’s what we’ve learned so far:- Serverless timeouts make it hard for...
Paper Notes: Spanner – Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

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Scribe: Improving Reliability One Nine at a Time

Why does Scribe need more nines? Scribe is a highly scalable, distributed, durable queue that allows writing and reading large-volume streams of data. As of today it serves more than nine terabytes (TB) per second of writes and more than 30 TB per second of reads, providing less than five seconds of latency—that’s in the 90th percentile. Scribe was initially...
Training Foundation Improvements for Closeup Recommendation Ranker

Fan Jiang | Software Engineer, Closeup Candidate Retrieval; Liyao Lu | Software Engineer, Closeup Ranking & Blending; Laksh Bhasin | Software Engineer, Core ML Foundations; Chen Yang | Software Engineer, Core ML Foundations; Shivin Thukral | Software Engineer, Closeup Ranking & Blending; Travis Ebesu | Software Engineer, Closeup Ranking & Blending; Kent Jiang | Software Engineer, Core Serving Infra; Yan...
Cloudy Forecast: How Predictable is Communication Latency in the Cloud?

Many, if not all, practical distributed systems rely on partial synchrony in one way or another, be it a failure detection, a lease mechanism, or some optimization that takes advantage of synchrony to avoid doing a bunch of extra work. These partial synchrony approaches need to know some crucial parameters about their world to estimate how much synchrony to expect....
Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens

Pinned A modern, scalable analytics system ...